Rainbow's End

She’s Baa-a-ack! With more headaches for Chief Gus Haddock

In Book 1 of the Swamp Yankee Mysteries, the ‘Glitter Girl’ Janine Stone created all kinds of trouble for Chief of Police Gus Haddock in Little Penwick, Rhode Island: the smallest town in the smallest state.

She managed to escape when Chief Haddock and his force broke up her human smuggling ring. But in the newest entry in the Swamp Yankee Mystery series, Janine is back in town. And that means trouble is afoot.

After barely escaping assault by auto, Chief Gus determines that Janine is back in town, and looking for the money she is owed for setting up her smuggling ring. Most of her compatriots from that crime ring are in jail, but somewhere in Little Penwick there’s a pot of cash with Janine’s name on it.

So Janine is looking for her cash and the police are looking for her. But life in Little Penwick doesn’t stop. Gus’ significant other, Maggie Wells, announces she’s pregnant. Maggie’s new women’s support center in Providence is having some problems, and Gus needs to hire two new cops.

It’s another page-turning small-town cop mystery from award-winning author James Y. Bartlett, who has also written the amusing Hacker Golf Mystery series and the epic historical novel, Year of the Sheep about the Highland Clearances in Scotland.

Author Biography

James Y. Bartlett is an American journalist, writer, editor and author.For most of his career, Bartlett worked in magazine journalism, specializing in covering the worlds of travel, golf and upscale lifestyle. He worked on staff as an editor with Golfweek, Caribbean Travel & Life and Luxury Golf magazines, among others.But he also published hundreds of freelance pieces in publications ranging from Bon Appetit to Esquire, Men’s Journal to Golf for Women.Bartlett was the golf columnist for Forbes FYI magazine for the first fifteen years of that publication’s history and wrote a similar column on the golf lifestyle for Hemispheres, the in-flight publication of United Airlines for nearly 20 years, the latter under the pseudonym of “A.G. Pollard Jr.“He began writing his popular Hacker Golf Mystery series in 1991 with the publication of Death is a Two-Stroke Penalty (St. Martin’s Press). That series, now published by Yeoman House, contains seven novels. In 2021, he published Year of the Sheep: A Novel of the Highland Clearances, an epic historical novel of that sad time. Bartlett is also the author of five nonfiction books.Bartlett lives with his wife Susan in Rhode Island.